Capabilities statement

What this floor can hold to.

Precision CNC turning and milling, prototype through production, backed by conventional machining, grinding, in-house design, and CMM inspection. Most jobs never leave the building; for the operations that do — heat treat, plating, coating — we manage reliable vendors and deliver finished parts.

01 At a glance · 02 Turning · 03 Milling · 04 Conventional · 05 Design · 06 Quality · 07 Materials · 08 Sample work

01 · At a glance

Company	Holtwood Machine · 1304 Holtwood Road, Holtwood, PA 17532 · (717) 284-0890
Ownership	Family owned and operated since 1997; full-time facility since 2003
Core work	CNC turning (bar fed, live tooling, Y-axis) · CNC milling (3-axis and 5-axis simultaneous) · conventional turning and milling · Blanchard grinding · saw cutting · laser marking · light assembly · CMM inspection · SolidWorks design, verification, and CAD conversion
Run sizes	1 piece to 30,000+; continuous bar-fed production
Materials	Brass, aluminum, carbon and alloy steels through tool steel, stainless, nickel alloys, plastics
File formats	STEP, IGES, Parasolid (X_T), SolidWorks, DXF/DWG, PDF — or paper drawings and sketches, converted to CAD here
Quoting	Prompt turnaround on every RFQ — upload files online
Industries	Firearms and shooting sports accessories · specialty construction hardware · automotive performance and aftermarket · fire and rescue equipment · construction and structural steel · industrial valves and process machinery · optics and scientific instruments · contract machining for other shops · and more
Tolerances	Late-model DMG Mori and Fanuc machines hold your tightest print tolerances.

02 · CNC turning

Bar in one end,
finished parts out the other

Two DMG Mori turning centers — an NZX2000 with three 16-station turrets and an NLX2500|700 — both with live tooling (driven tools for milling, drilling, and tapping on the lathe) and Y-axis, both bar fed. Cross-drilled holes, milled flats, off-center features, back-side work: complete in one cycle, untouched by a second setup. Bar feed keeps production runs going unattended.

A 19" × 60" engine lathe picks up the big one-offs and repair work.

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FIG. 2 — BAR FEED TO CUT

03 · CNC milling

Five sides,
one clamping

Fanuc Robodrill machining centers with 24,000 RPM spindles. The 5-axis α-D21MiA5, with a 69-station tool changer, machines multi-sided parts and compound angles in a single clamping — fewer setups, tighter position, faster delivery. The α-D21LiA5 adds 27.6" of X travel for longer work and production milling.

Five milled parts: two round housings, a ported block, an angled bracket, and a small pocketed plate — FIG. 3 — MILLING

04 · Conventional & grinding

The work around
the CNC work

Knee mill with DRO, engine lathe, band saw, hydraulic press, and Blanchard grinding for flat, parallel faces on plates and blanks. Secondary operations, repairs, modifications, and the one-piece jobs that don't justify a program. An OmTech 50 W laser marks part numbers, serials, and logos.

FIG. 4 — SUPPORT OPS

05 · Design & engineering

From napkin sketch
to numbered drawing

We design in SolidWorks and program in Fusion, with G-code verified before it ever reaches a machine. Bring a finished model and we machine it. Bring a paper drawing, a sketch, or a worn-out sample, and we model it, verify it, and produce the drawings and bills of material to make it repeatably. Checking form, fit, and function in CAD before the first chip has saved our customers real money in scrapped material and lost time.

To be clear about what we are: a precision machining shop. Design help exists to get your part machined right — cleaning a design up for manufacturing, converting paper drawings to CAD, verifying fit before the first chip — not as a separate engineering service.

A SolidWorks assembly drawing from the shop: exploded view, bill of materials, and title block — FIG. 5 — DESIGN

06 · Quality

Checked,
not assumed

Parts are inspected on a Cordax RS-25 coordinate measuring machine and conventional gauging. Inspection reports and material certifications are available on request. Light assembly and inspection are available so parts arrive ready to install. We stand behind our work — if something isn't right, we make it right.